BoxTrack vs Sortly, and Sortly alternatives for home and moving
Sortly is inventory software for small businesses. BoxTrack is for your home, your move and your storage boxes. An honest comparison of what each one does.
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if you're tracking stock, tools or equipment for a business: multiple users, barcode workflows, quantities going in and out, and reports for a team.
if you're keeping a home inventory for insurance, packing for a move, or keeping track of storage bins, and you want photos to do most of the typing.
At a glance
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Where Sortly is stronger
Team accounts, stock levels, barcode-heavy workflows and business reporting. If you run a business, Sortly is the more complete tool, and BoxTrack's business offer is different (it's for movers and organizers to give their clients).
Where BoxTrack is stronger
Photos instead of typing, home-insurance values, and moving-specific tools. And because it runs in the browser, someone you share a box with doesn't need to install anything.
Things to know about BoxTrack
It's new, it's a web app with no App Store download, and the free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items. A whole move or home needs a paid plan, with a 72-hour free trial.
More: QR code labels for storage bins and QR labels vs writing on boxes.
Pax is an AI. He knows BoxTrack and moving, not other apps, so check them on their own sites.
The details
Why this comparison+
Sortly comes up a lot when people search for a way to keep track of what's in their boxes and bins, and it's a capable product. It's also built for a different job. Here's an honest comparison from the people who make BoxTrack.
What Sortly is+
Sortly markets itself as inventory software for small businesses: inventory, tools and assets. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web, organizes items in folders and locations, scans barcodes, generates and prints QR and barcode labels, and exports PDF, CSV and Excel reports. There's a free plan with limits. Its strengths are its barcode and label tools and its flexible exports.
What BoxTrack is+
BoxTrack is a home inventory and moving inventory app that runs in any phone's browser. You make a box for each moving box, storage bin, room or closet, and snap what's in it. AI fills in item names, quantities and replacement values from the photo, and a photo of a whole open box can give every item in it at once. Each box gets a QR label (standard Avery sticker sheets). Scan it with any phone camera to see what's inside, or search "passport" to find which box it's in.
It's made for households:
- Insurance: used and replacement values, serial numbers, purchase dates and a PDF report with every photo.
- Moving: box weights with your mover's or airline's limit, a moving-day check-in that shows which boxes haven't come off the truck, and Ship, Sell, Store, Donate or Toss tags.
- Moving abroad: a box-by-box Excel list with values, ready to copy onto the form customs asks for.
Sources, checked October 10, 2026: Sortly business inventory app, Sortly QR labels, Sortly barcode system. Features change; check Sortly's site for the latest.
About BoxTrack’s plans: the free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items, with every feature to try. On paid plans, Starter has up to 5 boxes and 10 AI photo scans a month; Plus has up to 49 boxes, unlimited AI scans (whole boxes too), the insurance PDF report, Excel and CSV export, sharing and custom fields; Unlimited adds unlimited boxes and Ask Pax, the AI assistant. New accounts get 72 hours free on any paid plan.